I don’t know about you but I ate too much yesterday for Thanksgiving. Fortunately I had my stretchy pants on. Did you? Carrie Underwood did! Sing along.
My wife uses this song in the exercise classes she teaches this time of year. I think it is hilarious.
Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!!
We’ve had big Thanksgivings and smaller ones, especially with this pandemic we have been having. This year is a smaller one. A big treat is that we are having Thanksgiving on Wednesday with my brother at his Assisted Living Center. I’m looking forward to that.
It will just be a few of us on Thanksgiving Day. As our waistlines have expanded, we have downsized the meal. We don’t have the appetites we used to have anyway. We use disposable plates for the meal so nobody gets stuck with the dishes.
We’ll be counting our blessings as well. We have lots to be thankful for.
I’m wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving morning my brother Bob, up from Corpus Christi, and I ran in a food run on the Arkansas River Trails. Bob has been running pretty steadily since the big running boom of the 80’s. Me, I’m a poser.
It was the Von Franken Family Food Run. There is no entry fee. They just ask you to bring a sack of non-perishable food items. No tee shirt, no medals, and of course no timing and no closed course but it sure is popular and fun.
I think they filled the truck before the event was over.
There were some dogs out there ready to be rescued. We are full up with our three mutts. I tried to get brother Bob to get a dog but he didn’t want one.
There was lots of selfie action going on. I love to take pictures of people taking pictures. Don’t ask my why.
Here is some more selfie action going on.
I mentioned that this was a low budget, low pressure, run. Well, I didn’t hear a gun to signal the start but Bob said, “Look they are running.” So off we went. It took a while for the starting group to unpack. There were all sorts of runners, walkers, waddlers, dogs, baby strollers on the course but we just ran around them and others ran around me.
Bob gradually pulled away and I was going on at an easy pace. My legs were a little sore so I just loped along enjoying the view. We still have lots of fall color up in the trees. I just love it.
And then I got to wondering just how long was this race. I told Bob that it was about three miles but we just ran and ran and the turnaround wasn’t until 2.7 miles. I caught up with him there. And then he took off again while I stopped and got a drink at the water fountain cuz in this low budget wonderful race there are no water stops with no huge mess of water cups left over by the runner. I was surprised the water fountains were still running this late in the year.
There was a family playing football on the rugby field What a way to spend Thanksgiving morning right? I mean if you don’t feel like running. And anyway I caught up with Bob just before the finish line. We grabbed a cup of coffee and went home to get cleaned up.
We had Thanksgiving over at Nana’s house. I had smoked a couple of turkey’s on Wednesday plus we had all the usual trimmings. It was wonderful. Afterwards Bob and I watched the Dallas Cowboys lose to the Philadelphia Eagles. You can tell that Bob made friends with Nana’s Fiona. Bob should have got one of those rescue dogs is what I think.
I suck at inside Turkey Day photographs. Here is Heather and her mother Nana working in the kitchen.
And here is Heather and Nana working over my son Logan in a cutthroat game of Farkel during the game. They are way past the old let the kid win phase. He can hold his own in Farkel even against his cutthroat Mom and Grandmother.
So, I had a great Thanksgiving. How was yours?
The numbers for Thanksgiving ebb and flow and this year it was a smaller group which is fine. We were small but mighty. Brother Bob came up from Corpus Christi and my Dad Gramps flew down from Idaho. We convened at Nana’s house just a few miles away for a meal of great food and fellowship.
I was the official event photographer. I work really cheap.
Heather and her mother Nana made the magic happen. My goodness we had a lot of food. I smoked a turkey, Nana provided a smoked ham and a hen, we had noodles, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, dressing, purple hull peas, cranberry sauce, rolls, and on and on. Oh yes, the deserts we had pumpkin pie, pumpkin bars, and bread pudding, and oh yes, asparagus.
Yep, we got plenty of leftovers.
These two mutts didn’t get to go to Nana’s house.
This one did, Rascal was pretty proud of himself. The other two were a little growly toward him when we got back home.
We are really blessed to be able to be together. Not everybody is so fortunate.
And of course, if you haven’t heard before, the agents of everything good in the universe, the Dallas Cowboys defeated the godless heathen Oakland Raiders.
Outside the stadium Tom was standing a little taller, and it looked he was almost smiling.
So all is right with the world.
I hope that Thanksgiving finds you home or with loved ones.
Thanksgiving day is also Hanukkah for the first time since the late 19th Century. A twofer for our Jewish neighbors and friends. Gobbletov I’m told.
I hope that you got your turkey by now.
If you don’t you can try catching one of these dudes. Good luck with that by the way.
Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Skywatch Friday from my family to yours.
I hope that you are all having a great Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
(from http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/10-great-thanksgiving-prayers/)
Mural at Tulsa International Airport. I was there to pick up my Dad who flew in from Idaho.
I hope those who are traveling for Thanksgiving get to wherever you are going safely.
Well we had Thanksgiving over at my Mother-in-Law’s house.
There was a whole houseful people. And a little bit of food. It wasn’t exactly like feeding the multitudes with a few fish and loaves.
We had lots to eat and lots to talk about. And of course everybody was happy that the Dallas Cowboys beat the Miami Dolphins… well at least I was happy:)
Below is Sue Carol. She is Sweetie’s aunt and a retired school teacher.
My favorite were these pots. It’s kind of a double self portrait.
What was in them was good also.
Anyway, we had a great Thanksgiving. How was your day?
Whoever you are with,
and Whatever you are eating,
Have a great Thanksgiving,
from our family to you and your family